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Hi there.
I'm thinking about buying either the K750 or W800. But I've been wondering about how fast you can transfer files between your phone and the computer via cable or bluetooth. If it's anything like my old phone it would take decades and then I'd probably rather buy a separate camera and mp3-player.
So, if you've a 512MB memory card filled with photos and want to transfer them to your computer. Or if you want to empty the card of mp3's and fill it with new songs, does anyone know how long time that would take?
Also, I'd like some oppinions on the camera. Is it really good enough to use as a regular digital camera? I used to have a Minolta X20 2Mpix camera and it took pictures that were good enough for my purposes, would one of these phones do well as a replacement?
Many thanks to those who can find the time to answer.
Cheers!
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Posted: 2005-08-10 13:15:33
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Transfers through the supplied cable to the memorycard when inserted in the phone is normal USB speed which is plenty fast for normal transfers of several megabytes. 10mb is transfered in about 30sec.
Transfers to the internal memory are much much slower because it use a seriel emulation. Fastest is to first transfer to memorycard then transfer from memorycard to the phone directly on the phone.
To speed up transfers to/from the memorycard further, detach it from the phone and place it in a normal USB2 Highspeed reader/writer, and it will be very very fast.
The camera of K750/W800 is quite good, the best 2mp mobilecam available, and quite comparable with normal 2mp digicams in quality.
Better in some respect, worse in others.
Check out the K750 pictures thread for examples.
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=92330
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Posted: 2005-08-10 13:39:49
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I get faster transfers than that, it's like an external hard (high speed),
it's nothing like the bluetooth so don't worry
, you can easily copy a gig in a few minutes.
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Posted: 2005-08-10 14:30:39
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I've been doing some tests with the K750i.
K750i both reads and writes at around 320KB/s (2.5Mbps), tested with the bundled Sony 64MB card and a Sandisk 512MB PRO Duo.
This means as numb said, a 10MB file takes around 30 seconds to transfer.
Now, lets say you want to transfer 450MB of MP3's. That would take around 25 minutes. And if you'd want to empty the card to your computer first it would take around 50 minutes total.
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Posted: 2005-08-10 16:39:15
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So basically if you're going to use the phone as an mp3/video player or to take lots of photos, a separate card reader is almost essential..
Personally I'm very disappointed with the speed of transferring files onto the phone itself. I don't expect it to be lightning fast, but it just seems silly that they specifically changed the interface (i.e. new connector) for higher speeds, but it's still faster to send files to/from the phone via bluetooth =/
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Posted: 2005-08-10 16:47:23
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On 2005-08-10 16:39:15, abe2000 wrote:
I've been doing some tests with the K750i.
K750i both reads and writes at around 320KB/s (2.5Mbps), tested with the bundled Sony 64MB card and a Sandisk 512MB PRO Duo.
This means as numb said, a 10MB file takes around 30 seconds to transfer.
Now, lets say you want to transfer 450MB of MP3's. That would take around 25 minutes. And if you'd want to empty the card to your computer first it would take around 50 minutes total.
I have been testing also and its about 10MB file takes around 30 seconds as well. But isn't this very slow? I mean comparing to an Ipod, the speed is is about 4 seconds for 10MB.
More importantly, below is a link to some of the basic spec. of memory stick PRO (which is the same as duo except for its size)
http://www.memorystick.com/en/ms/features5.html
Scroll down and you will notice that it claims a MINIMUM write speed of 15 Mbps = 2MBps. 1 song is maybe about 5 MB. Which means that if optimized, the we should be seeing a speed of at least 2 sec per 5MB song which translates to maybe 20 seconds per cd or per album.
Does anyone know why is the speed of transfer to the memory stick duo PRO limited in the case of k750/ w800?
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Posted: 2005-08-10 17:01:05
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Posted: 2005-08-11 07:18:37
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I don't see what the fuss is about with just getting a card reader. They're so cheap nowadays anyway.
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Posted: 2005-08-11 08:53:21
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A usb card reader is the best option. I got mine from tesco for 10 pounds. Its plug and play so you can use it in almost any pc.
This message was posted from a S700
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Posted: 2005-08-11 09:05:30
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@gwlip
Yeah, the speed is a bit low. But the minimum requirement is for the card, not the device.
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Posted: 2005-08-11 10:30:02
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